Shoreham (Vermont)

Addison County

50-65050

Shoreham is a town in Addison County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 1,265 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). The area lies on the south-eastern foothills of Lake Champlain. It is predominantly flat to hilly and has neither significant nor surveys over larger watercourses. The main settlement is located in the center of the area at the intersection of two main roads of the area, the Vermont Routes 22A and 73 The community is located across from Fort Ticonderoga and is connected to the city Ticonderoga with one of the oldest continuously throughout in operating ferries, after the Fort Fort Ti ferry named.

The city was at the instigation of Ephraim Doolittle, a colonel in the Army of the United States, built in 1761. The colonel had discovered the site during the construction of a plank path at the time of the French and Indian War in 1759 and convicted of their fertility as a good land for a settlement. The village was and is dominated by agriculture until today.

Nearby Cities

All information as airlines.

  • North: Bridport, 11.0 km
  • Northeast: Middlebury, 17.5 km
  • East: Salisbury, 16.5km
  • Southeast: Brandon, 21.0 km
  • South: Orwell, 10.0 km
  • Southwest: Ticonderoga, New York 11.0 km
  • Northwest: Crown Point, New York, 11.0 km

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Silas H. Jennison (1791 - 1849), politician and Governor of Vermont
  • Joel Turrill (1794 - 1859), politician and representative in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • John Smith Chipman (1800 - 1869), politician and representative in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Augustus C. Hand (1803 - 1878), politician and representative in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Ansel Briggs (1806 - 1881), politician and Governor of Iowa
  • Columbus Delano (1809 - 1896), politician and Minister of the Interior of the United States
  • Selucius Garfielde (1822 - 1881), politician and representative in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Ansel Briggs (1806-1881), first Governor of Iowa
  • Columbus Delano (1809-1896), Secretary of the Interior
  • Levi P. Morton (1824-1920), 22nd Vice- President of the United States
  • Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (1834-1924), 1886-1888 Governor of the State of Vermont
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